Nōnai Poison Berry (2015)

Original title

脳内ポイズンベリー

Directed by

Yūichi Satō

Genre

romance film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 01m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in her thirties struggles with romance and relationships. Her inner thoughts are represented as a committee in her brain that debates her decisions.

lightheartedquirkyromanticcomedicwhimsicalrelatablewarmplayful

What happens

Nōnai Poison Berry (Japanese: 脳内ポイズンベリー, Hepburn: Nōnai Poizun Berii; transl. Poison Berry in My Brain) is a Japanese slice-of-life romance manga series written and illustrated by Setona Mizushiro. It was serialized in Chorus magazine, later relaunched as Cocohana magazine, from December 2009 to March 2015 and collected as five tankōbon volumes by publisher Shueisha. The series was adapted into a live-action film that premiered in Japan in May 2015, as well as a stage play that ran at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, in March 2020, both directed by Yūichi Satō and officially titled Poison Berry in My Brain in English. The Stage play was rerun in 2022 with a different cast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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